Liberalism is Not a Guaranteed Outcome
A new book by Ben Rhodes: ‘After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made’
4 min readAug 25, 2021
“To be born American in the late twentieth century,” Ben Rhodes writes in his 2021 book After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, “was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted — a state of nature arrived at after…